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Global Folk Dance Party on May 9, 2020

Hope everybody enjoyed the last party, our next party is this Saturday, May 9, 3pm to 6pm PT.
Information here:

Join Zoom Party: https://zoom.us/j/600066908
Or watch on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/PFDCouncil/

We appreciate your comments, suggestions and requests; keep them coming.

Then, join the afterparty at IFDA St. Louis Virtual Dance Party!

More notes:

  • Based on feedback, there will be less teaching and more dancing.
  • The party after May 9 will be on May 30, then June 20, when we shift to our new normal day of 3rd Saturday of each month.
  • We’re continuing to improve on our music and video sync quality and think you’ll like the continued improvements.
  • In May, we’ll have our normal team, as well […]
By |2020-05-04T23:21:35-07:00May 4th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|0 Comments
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IsraelFEST with Roberto on Zoom

The next event will be a Israeli Dance Online Party on Sunday, May 10th starting at 5pm CEST (11am EST and 8am PDT), using the Zoom platform.

Join the next Zoom Meeting to see others taking part and chat

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/3125941469
Meeting ID: 312 594 1469

The Party is free. Please spread the word. Share it with your folk dance friends.

Looking forward to staying in touch and seeing everybody

Roberto

For more information about online dancing events, request a dance or make a donation see Roberto’s website: www.morenu.it

By |2020-05-04T22:19:01-07:00May 4th, 2020|Dance, Israeli, Live, Party|0 Comments
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International Folk Song Exchange & Bulgarian Folk Singing Technique

Vlada Tomova is excited to invite you to three different folk singing offerings: Vlada will be either leading, or hosting on Zoom in the upcoming months. She is planning on May and June for now, and shall see how life goes after that in these unprecedented times.

Feel free to pass this on – all levels are welcome, and the classes are by donation, or free!

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Sing Bulgarian ornaments with ease! – Vlada will lead with this one to start

  • Mondays, 8-9 PM EDT (45 min singing, 15 Q&A, send in your recording for feedback)
  • 15$ suggested donation (pay what you can)
  • starting May 4

Learn your favorite Bulgarian folk songs with a native singer! – Vlada will lead with this one to start, with special guest teachers

  • Saturday, 4:30-5:30 pm EDT (if you have a song you’ve been aching to learn, or find out more about its meaning, send it her way)
  • 10$ suggested donation (pay what you can)
  • starting May 9

International folk song exchange! – led by native singers from around the world

  • Sunday, 4:30-5:30 pm EDT (Q&A follows)
  • FREE!
  • May 10 – Mavrothi Kontanis (Greece), a great singer, oud player, and teacher, well known and loved in the […]
By |2020-05-04T22:07:55-07:00May 4th, 2020|Balkan, Live, Singing, Workshop|0 Comments
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Dragi Spasovski podcast episode 45 published

Interested in discussions and samples of Macedonian folk songs?
David Bilides and Dragi Spasovski are back with another podcast for you in their series of expanded discussions for each of the 54 songs in Dragi’s 3-CD set.

Episode 45: Neli si se naspalo

This is a love song of the Macedonian Muslims living in the greater Šar Planina area. Dragi talks about the Isjanovska sisters, describes the Macedonian Muslim dialect, and discusses that singing tradition, both its continuity and its evolution.

You can…

1) Download the podcast directly from the site: http://podcasts.izvormusic.com
2) Listen to the podcast without downloading it, as an audio stream from the same page on the site;
3) Subscribe to the entire series from the same page on the site or through iTunes or similar software.
4) Get more information about the 3-CD set here: http://www.izvormusic.com/cds

Episodes on the site have additional audio and links discussed in the podcast.

As always, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Have fun listening!

http://izvormusic.com

By |2020-05-04T21:49:12-07:00May 4th, 2020|Anytime, Balkan, Culture, Information, Singing|0 Comments
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St Louis Virtual Dance Party May 9

Saturday, May 9, 6:30-8:30 pm Pacific Time, International Folk Dancers Association of University City (St. Louis, MO) hosts a virtual dance party on Zoom. Everyone is welcome! Follow this FB page for details https://www.facebook.com/events/241255463924801/

The Zoom Link is https://zoom.us/my/ifdauc

No Teaching, just dancing!!! We will all be dancing together since we know we are all missing a sense of community right now.
We hope that you will join us!!!

Dance requests can be submitted here.

By |2020-05-04T21:33:12-07:00May 4th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|1 Comment
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Surrey Folk Dance Wednesdays

Wednesdays at 7pm PDT, Surrey International Folk Dancing Society presents their dance class online using Zoom. Almost every dance is reviewed before dancing. Everyone welcome.

What is our repertoire, you ask? Check out the dances we’ve done lately  and dances done in the last couple of years on the Surrey Folk Dance website.

SIFD Zoom Dancing Session
Time: Wednesday 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Until further notice

See it on the Events Calendar

Join Zoom Dancing
Meeting ID: 830 645 734
Password: Sifd

By |2020-06-10T18:25:54-07:00April 28th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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Dancin’ in the Seats

Steve Weintraub is offering Facebook Live sessions –

Dancin’ in the Seats is a unique program of seated dances to a variety of music. They are simple, fun, and get the whole body moving. Because they are seated, there is no worry about losing one’s balance, or bumping into things or tripping while moving around. All ages and abilites find these dances delightful.

These are all seated dances!

See Steve’s Facebook page: facebook.com/StevenLeeWeintraub/

Times: M/W at 11:00 AM and T/Th at 3:00 PM ET

By |2020-04-28T22:30:16-07:00April 28th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Live, Workshop|1 Comment
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Folk Dance with Henry on YouTube

Henry’s new YouTube channel offers International Folk Music and Dance videos. Everyone can learn and dance these folk dances without attending a formal session or if there are no opportunities in your area. This channel is hosted by Henry Temchin, a long time folk dancer currently living in Greenacres, Florida.

Henry has uploaded over 100 folk dance videos in only one month (since 2 March 2020).

By |2020-04-28T21:07:46-07:00April 28th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, International|0 Comments
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Tom Pixton and Julia Poirier Live Music Dance Workshop

Live Music Dance Workshop

Popular dances with live music and commentary
Tom Pixton and Julia Poirier

Saturday, May 2, 2020
Workshop: 2:00-4:00pm EDT

Online via Zoom on your nearest web browser or device!
To benefit the Folk Arts Center of New England
Visit Workshop listing on FACONE for details.

Join Tom Pixton (accordion, vocals), Julia Poirier (guitar, vocals) and the Folk Arts Center as we present our first live music dance workshop of the socially distanced era via Zoom, the popular teleconferencing platform.

Tom and Julia have been playing for International Folk Dance for 30 years. In this workshop, they’ll play some of your favorite dances and provide some commentary on playing for dance. To respect social distancing, they will be in different locations in the same studio, connected to a common audio mix to avoid latency.

Click here to Start the Zoom Dancing

Many more details on how to donate, how to connect, and what to bring on the FACONE website.
This I know: Have candles handy for Mom Bar!

By |2020-04-30T18:25:09-07:00April 28th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|0 Comments
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Memorial Day and Israeli Independence Day dances

In honor of Israel Independence Day, I have compiled 5 special Israeli dance NEW collections at: https://rokdim.co.il/#/:

  1. Harkada #24 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkbpGn5Q1k), Dances in honor of Israeli Memorial Day. Please read the description when the image is clicked.
  2. Harkada #25 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z_WL2B1MV4) and #26 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDnnGQP5fZE), are dances that correspond to the songs about the Israeli Independence Day evening celebrations.
  3. Harkada #27 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4N1Uhx9-5Y) and #28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNWyKceSTsk) are dances about Israeli Independence Day itself. Join us as we take a “virtual dance trip” to Israel: we begin in the Galilee/north of the country and continue south along the Jordan River, to the Sea of Galilee, passing to Mt Gilboa and then south through the Jordan valley to the Dead Sea and then going up to Jerusalem. (“Harkada #19” is dedicated solely to Jerusalem)
  4. Our trip continues at Harkada #28 as we go down south from Jerusalem through Beer Sheva to Eilat and Sharm A-Sheich (we will not return to […]
By |2020-04-27T12:37:00-07:00April 27th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Israeli|0 Comments
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Zoom-Cali Israeli Dance Virtually on Zoom

This week, Orly and I are excited to welcome the amazing Michael Barzelai, choreographer of favorites like Normali, Aneni, Salam, Shneinu, and many more. We’ll be celebrating Israel’s 72nd birthday with lots of Yom Ha’atzmaut dances!

Join us Wed., Apr. 29, 6-9pm Pacific, on Zoom (meeting ID: 512-501-420, password: balagan), or just click below.

Click to join! (Password: balagan)

By |2020-04-27T12:37:50-07:00April 26th, 2020|Dance, Israeli, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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Zoom dancing in San Antonio Tuesdays 7-9pm CDT

San Antonio Folk Dancers are continuing their Zoom dancing this Tuesday 7-9pm CDT. “Doors” open around 6:45pm.

ZOOM MEETING LINK UPDATE (2020-05-27)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85471809185

Meeting ID: 854 7180 9185

See here for a list of dances. The plan is to do those in bold but Denes will take requests.
[Taking requests is tricky: I may not remember every dance 🙂 Please be forgiving.]

There is a dance in the list that we have not done before. Please look at San Antonio Folk Dancers Facebook page to see (and perhaps learn) it.

Happy Dancing!

By |2020-05-27T11:35:02-07:00April 26th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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LA and Beyond Friday Night LIFE Virtual Dance Parties Reminder

Hey Party People!

REMINDER: Join us every Friday at 8pm (PST) for L.I.F.E. Balkan Dancers on Zoom until we return to dancing together at LA Dancefit in West LA! Bring your dancing shoes and your own snacks and we will dance to your requests! If you have not yet contacted Sherry by e-mail for the private link and given her your requests both for dances and for teaching, please do so before noon (PST) on Friday. If you have the link from 4/10 and beyond you are good to go! We will be doing a couple of walkthroughs and lots of dancing to your requests. Teaching videos and lots of other inspiring stuff is on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBalkanDancers/videos

BTW- we have completed one month of Friday Night L.I.F.E. on Zoom! Wow! It is a pleasure to continue to serve our dance community.

Love and Light,
Sherry
lifebalkandancers.com

By |2020-04-25T22:39:43-07:00April 25th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, International, Live, Party|0 Comments
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World Dance For Humanity Building Community During The Covid Crisis

During normal times, World Dance offers daily classes in Santa Barbara, with all proceeds going to our work in Rwanda, where we are helping 11,500 genocide survivors lift themselves out of poverty.

With the outbreak of COVID-19, we suspended our regular classes, but we were determined to help people sheltering at home by providing a fun, free, uplifting daily dance experience.
Since the start of the shut-down, we’ve been offering daily dance classes on Zoom. It’s been wonderful, bringing together people isolated at home…through dance! Many of us are dancing every day now, increasing our stamina, strength, and flexibility. Beyond that, we’re enjoying a big dose of community, social connection, and joy!

We offer a new array of music and dance styles each day, from belly dance to Bhangra, mambo to Motown, samba to swing. The dances are simple enough for beginners to follow, but varied and challenging enough to keep experienced dancers interested and inspired. The participants come from Santa Barbara (where we’re based), and from Italy, England, France, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Africa!

We have also put our classes on YouTube so people can follow along at home anytime—beginner to more advanced dances. Our latest offering is a “gentle” class: […]

By |2020-04-25T22:40:21-07:00April 25th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Exercise, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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FACONE Online Dance Party Sat April 25

This Saturday, April 25:

ONLINE Dance Party with Ahmet Lüleci, Roberto Bagnoli, Joe Graziosi, and Zeljko Jergan

2:00-4:00pm EDT
with a short break before 3pm

Join Ahmet, Roberto, Joe, Zeljko, and the Folk Arts Center as we present a dance party via Zoom. All four teachers will review a few of the dances they taught over the past month in their individual Saturday afternoon workshops.

Click here for Zoom Dancing Link

Go to the workshop page for more details and to donate to FACONE: http://www.facone.org/programs/online-dance-party.html

By |2020-04-24T10:43:26-07:00April 24th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|0 Comments
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Dancing Well At Home Especially for Kids

Dancing Well at Home

Come Join Us and have fun with “Dancing Well at Home”

Here are dance sessions Especially For Kids of veteran and military families, but ALL ARE WELCOME! These recorded videos are available free of charge 24 hours each day. To join the live fun, tune in to Facebook/DancingWell Wednesdays at 4pm EST. facebook.com/DancingWell.

For further information see the dancing well at home website.

By |2020-04-24T10:10:28-07:00April 24th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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Dance with Ira Weisburd Date Change Update

Due to the fact that YOM HASHOAH & YOM HAZIKARON fall on Monday night, April 20th and Monday night, April 27th, I have moved the virtual class (below) to Wednesday, April 22nd and Wednesday, April 29th at 2:30pm EDT.

I am sending this out to all of you on my mailing list and am posting this here on my facebook page where the class takes place: https://www.facebook.com/dancewithira

Let us all take this time to remember the victims of the Holocaust and the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism. We will celebrate YOM HA-ATZMAUT on Wednesday, April 29th !! The Playlist for Wednesday is attached below !!

Stay safe, stay well, stay home & stay strong
Ira

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By |2020-04-20T16:46:59-07:00April 20th, 2020|Dance, Israeli, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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